CD Single Review: Darius Twyman

Growing up Catholic, I used to hate “Holy Holy Holy” because it was sung like a funeral dirge, not at all like the pop music I enjoyed on 1970s radio. Thanks to the gospel community embracing this hymn, we can now experience all of the composition’s possibilities, from its capacity to be rendered by beautiful, multi-layered harmonies to its inner bounce just waiting to leap out, the latter demonstrated by Detroit mainstay Darius Twyman.

Twyman, whose gospel career began with Donald Vails and the Voices of Deliverance, and who brought us “Darius Twyman and Destiny,” gives the ol’ song’s traditional lyrics an energetic, frothy melody and beat, and an exciting vocal arrangement. I like it a whole lot better Darius’ way, and so will you.